You want to put people in neat categories, make them monsters or angels, but it almost never works that way. You work in the gray and frankly that kinda sucks. The extremes are so much easier.

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Only bad writers think they're good.

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

...not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am.

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.

If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

I don't think I have charisma. I don't think that someone will yell 'Wow, he's charismatic' when I'm eating in a restaurant.

Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.

Today is the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. Let us work and pray.

The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.

I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow.

A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.